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Not quite sure where to start with data from the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft? This article contains links to the raw data, and also links to the various software tools that members of the community have created to analyze the data itself.

Creating shaded relief maps or combination colorized/shaded relief maps with MOLA data is easy to do with the Generic Mapping Tools (GMT).

The MOLA gridded data set is a great resource. The Generic Mapping Tools (GMT) are a great tool set. This article shows you how to take the raw binary MOLA gridded data set and convert it into the netCDF format that GMT uses. Once you do that, a whole range of mapping options are open to you.